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To: imardmd1

Don’t know anything about wafers other then to eat em. 12 inch can do a lot I presume?


16 posted on 11/18/2021 9:35:12 AM PST by vespa300
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To: vespa300
Don’t know anything about wafers other then to eat em. 12 inch can do a lot I presume?

I came away from my years in GE Semiconductor Products Department with a few two-inch (50mm) wafers, only about maybe about 0.025' (~1 mm) thick. These might have twenty or so devices imaged on them, to be separated later by laser-scribing and breaking them apart. I doubt that a 300mm wafer would have only one CPU imaged on it, Likely several, maybe a couple cm square?

Back in the day, the break-even point of profitability was a yield of about 20% of saleable packaged devices. Now? Just guessing.

17 posted on 11/18/2021 11:03:03 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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